Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus (also known as GNOME Files) is the default file manager for Ubuntu and as such is used to manage files and folders. Nautilus is called "Files" by default on Ubuntu.
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How to update to Nautilus 3.18.2 in Ubuntu 15.10
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm still exploring it's features, so could someone help me how to upgrade Nautilus 3.16 to 3.18.2. I'm using Ubuntu 15.10.
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Define keyboard shortcut to a series of keyboard shotcuts
Is it possible somehow to define a keyboard shortcut that sequentially executes two different keyboard shortcuts? As an example, I want to open nautilus search directly. I can search in nautilus by ...
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File sharing lost when upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04
Something strange happened when upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. I have three partitions on a connected hard drive that were all shared in 12.04. After upgrading, I only have one shared. The other two ...
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help needed recovering filesystem for backup
Got myself in a bit of trouble on a previously smoothly running system. Here is the story so far: yesterday I switched to a propriatary ATI driver instead of the Nouveau driver that I ran uo to that ...
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How to debug Nautilus crashes and issues?
I have a problem since the last update: Nautilus mysteriously doesn't start properly. I see it is a systems wide problem, i.e. affecting all the users on my host. Nevertheless, I have tried:
clean ~/....
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Is there any way to get a details pane in Ubuntu 14.04 like in Windows File Explorer?
Is there any way to get the details pane, preferably in Nemo? I am particularly interested in the duration, bit rate of music files and videos.
I realize I can view the information in List View but I ...
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How to manually arrange files/folders in nautilus? (15.10)
On the desktop, I can arbitrarily arrange files by dragging and dropping them wherever I wish. Is is possible to have the same functionality in nautilus?
For example, I want to be able to open /home/...
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How to enable nautilus to show all files on android phone connected via usb mtp?
Android (4.2.2) phone (HTC Desire 310) is detected by Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS successfully. Nautilus starts automatically.
But only a few folders are shown. And there are missing much more folders and ...
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Problem in showing Unicode characters in Gnome Files titlebar
I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 which uses Files v3.14.2 as file manager.
This app cannot show Persian characters in folder name on its title bar.
Other apps (VLC ...) have no problem in similar cases.
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What is x-nautilus-desktop:/// and why do I have it?
I have a new bookmark in my nautilus I didn't make.
It links to my desktop.
What is it and where did it came from?
Am I giving desktop access to someone?
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How can I make Nautilus file manager remember my open tabs?
Is it possible to preserve my open tabs between closing and opening of Nautilus file manager?
Preferably even across different logouts and restarts.
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How to customize Nautilus to display directory tree in the sidebar?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS a little while and I consider myself a beginner.
I am using the Nautilus file manager:
I wonder if you can navigate the folders through the directory tree, like in Windows ...
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sudo nautilus warning
Ubuntu 14.04 with current updates. This is what I get when I type this command "sudo nautilus"
(nautilus:3803): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error....
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How to enable thumbnail preview for text files in Nautilus
I have many small text files, and want Nautilus to show previews in the icon thumbnail.
Left is my current situation, right is what I want.
How to achieve that on Ubuntu 15.10?
My current Nautilus ...
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Nautilus' Properties tab does not show full path of the file if the path is too long
Whenever a file's path is too long, Nautilus doesn't display the path in full and instead chooses to use ... to replace the last parts of the path. This is annoying and very unhelpful because often it'...
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Messed up desktop and other folders
Recently i made an attempt to rename Desktop to desktop..and messed up some things.When i try to remove these folders from here..they get deleted from home directory.
Following is screenshot of home ...
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Double click the desktop to hide/show all icons
Is there a way to make double-clicking an empty space on the desktop hide/show all desktop icons?
hint; the command gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false can be used ...
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Nautilus not showing folder icons in home folder
Usually folders like pictures and documents show up with an icon in nautilus. Since I have a 1TB hard drive for storage I decided to put the folders there instead and create a symbolic link to my home ...
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Need help building shell script for copying
I have thousands of pictures (raw) in my computer sorted out into many folders and subfolders. I want to copy those into cloud drive. I successfully mounted to cloud drive. Due to my limited upload ...
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can't resize Nautilus window in gnome-flashback using Ambiance theme
When I use the Ambiance theme on my Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) in gnome-flashback I can resize the nautilus window only on the upper side (the area to resize the window is very thin). If I use an other theme ...
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Sublime Text not showing in Nautilus "open with" menu
I am running Ubuntu 15.10.
My /usr/share/applications/sublime_text.desktop contains the following:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Sublime Text
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=...
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How can I make File Manager's Unity icon open the already opened window?
The below animation demonstrates the problem. Clicking File Manager's Unity icon opens a new window instead of the already opened window. This is different with any other application where clicking ...
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File manager with two panel synchronized directory browsing
Is there any tool (similar to vifm, mc) which allows two panel synchronized directory browsing?
eg. I have two directories opened in both panels:
/home/user/website1/
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/home/user/website2/
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Where is location of users via Nautilus [closed]
When I browse files, I like to use Nautilus...especially when in root. Where do I locate the users of the computer via Nautilus?
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Nautilus scripts not showing up (although on the right folder and executable)
I just installed ubuntu 14.04 and I'm setting everything up.
I wanted to add a couple of scripts to the right click menu. Putted them on ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts .
Made them executable.
Reboot....
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How can I gain access permissions as a user to a USB stick formatted with the "Format Volume" dialog?
I used the Format Volume dialog to format a USB stick. However, if I then insert the formatted stick, I have no permissions to access it as normal user.
Is this behaviour intentional?
Format Volume
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Nautilus crashes when using "New folder with selection" since 15.10 update
Since I updated my 15.04 to 15.10 my Nautilus keeps crashing, when I use "New folder with selection" with more than about five files (don't know the exact number but it's less than 10). When I start ...
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Gnome 3 screwed up Unity, especially Nautilus
I wanted to try gnome 3 in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (which had unity). I installed gnome 3 alongside unity; tried it; didn't like it. So, I uninstalled gnome 3 environment. But now my unity is not working ...
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Nautilus 3.18.2 and Google Drive
I am currently running Nautilus 3.18.2 and one of the announced features was that there will be Google Drive support after Online Accounts have been properly set up. So after adding in my Google ...
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Changed icon is only static when switching file views
I got a question about changing icons in my home folder.
Say I have a new folder called Resources and I want to assign one of the matching folder icons available in /usr/share/icons/Adwaita. I have ...
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Desktop icons outside the monitor on second monitor (smaller one)
I have a 24" and a 27" monitor connected to my notebook and arranged as you can see in the Display Settings window below.
So the right (blue) monitor is higher than the left (green) one. My problem ...
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How can I view images sorted by width and height?
I have a bunch of different sized images in a folder. I would like to sort the images by width x height and then copy some to another folder using a file explorer. (In this case i want to move all my ...
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why are jpeg previews included with each photo in the directory?
i have uploaded a bunch of RAW photos on my ubuntu device from an SD card, and what i am finding is that in each directory where my photos are stored, there is also a jpeg preview right next to it. ...
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How to start nautilus maximized from command line?
I can easily start Nautilus on a particular directory from command line:
nautilus /home/nico/Documents
But I want that Nautilus window to be maximized.
How to write the command line?
nautilus does ...
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Cannot browse network while in VNC
I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I installed desktop with minimum recommended software. I've also installed VNCServer which works fine. When I physically log on I can use the "Browse Network" in ...
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Sorry, Ubuntu 14.04 experienced an internal error
I am experiencing the following error - nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV
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Bring BackSpace back to nautilus (3.18+) once and for all!
With regards to this question, the solution provide to get backspace for going back in nautilus does not function any longer. I would like to know if there is a functioning workaround for nautilus 3....
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Change translation in Nautilus
I would like ask you, where can I rewrite one translation in context menu of Nautilus, because in my language it is not correct translated.
Thank you
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how to fix Unable to open MTP device '[usb:004,010]' in ubuntu 1V
I connected my Lumia 640 mobile to Ubuntu and when I tried to open it shows this error:
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Preview ascii files in file explorer (eg nautilus) like in windows 8 under Ubuntu?
Is there a filebrowser that features a preview pane to preview Ascii files and images?
Can I do that with nautilus?
I'm looking for something similar to the Windows 8 file explorer. There you can ...
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Ubuntu : Disable access to file-manager, keyboard,mouse(Touch screen available) for guest account
I am looking to configure Ubuntu(Any version, new installation) for presentation in which I would like to do the following things :
Automatic guest-login at startup.
Completely disable keyboard,mouse,...
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Nautilus: Visited directory via symlink, now I can't go one level up in the target directory hierarchy
I created a shortcut via "make link" option. When I enter to this shortcut's folder I can't see any folders above it so I can't easily navigate to them.
Is there a way to go one folder up in the GUI? ...
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Nautilus: change "paste" to auto-check copied file against original
Is it somehow possible (maybe with nautilus actions?) to change the behaviour of the "paste" functionality or to add a new paste functionality that does the following:
paste as normal
do a diff of ...
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Set nautilus to manage only desktop
I replaced nautilus with nemo file manager, because i like it much more, but nemo cant handle wallpapers in desktop. How can i set nautilus to manage desktop only? I dont want to have nautilus "files" ...
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Set wallpaper in nemo file manager
I replaced nautilus with nemo file manager, i like nemo much more, but i dont know how to set wallpaper in nemo. If i go to images and right click on image, then select "Set as wallpaper" nothing ...
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File Manager Type Classification - Document (pdf/docx)
I have a folder with pdf, doc and docx files, I would like to sort them using the default File manager, displaying pdfs and word docs separately. Unfortunately in the 'Type' column, they are all ...
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Nautilus stuck in fullscreen
Today my nautilus started beeing stuck in fullscreen. Upon opening nautilus you will get the a full screen nautilus. F11 does not do anything and in the nautilus options is nothing to disable ...
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File manager does not always list alphabetically
Nautilus file manager on Ubuntu 14.04 does not always list document folders in alphabetical order.
When I access my documents normally via the file manager, all folders and sub folders are shown in ...
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How to stop Ubuntu 14.04 from changing timestamp on cut and paste? [duplicate]
When I 'Move' pictures from my camera or phone into Ubuntu using 'Files V3.10.1', the timestamp in the 'Modified' column changes to the day I move the files.
Obviously I did not 'modify' the file, I ...
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Samba configuration file location
I have setup samba share in Ubuntu 14.04, by using the Local Network Share option in nautilus and I am able to successfully access the shared folder from other computers in my home.
What I can't ...